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Re: OpenID Foundation – Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo

John Lam — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:37:45 -0000

@Joe, pay attention to the location bar and opportunities for phishing are no more than password logins. Even better, Yahoo and http://IDproxy.net use only HTTPS logins, and let you upload and create a custom picture so you can clearly distinguish your Yahoo login page from a spoof. With one login, all OpenID-capable sites become accessible without worry someone might sniff your password over unsecure WiFi links.

Most sites offering password logins also let you recover your login by submitting your e-mail address. This is an open vector for sniffing passwords and substitute logins. By comparison, OpenID sites can rely upon multiple identity providers, should you forgot your login at any one. And don't forget, from the get-go, OpenID requires no additional password to remember!

Re: Welcome, Unknowns

John Lam — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:25:32 -0000

Gee, 'tis nice to have one of my favorite writers about Web 2.0 tip her hat to me for a tumblelog still trying to find its voice and yet still get first mention in the list! Might i attribute this to the power of the enigmatic?

Imagine my surprise to see you follow me at Linkriver and to see the notification arrive in my mail. As a stream of less personal posts, i hope it doesn't disappoint.

Thank you for the mention, Sarah, and keep up the awesome reporting and writing!

Re: (The official) Tumblr Tumblelog

John Lam — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:34:05 -0000

Woot. Thank you, David! I had long awaited this. Before, i had posted using the marklet, and then jumped into my dashboard to edit and add tags. Thankfully, i won't need to do that anymore, at least not for this reason.

Re: More URL niceness We've added an advanced option... | Tumblr Staff

John Lam — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:08:33 -0000

Instead of appending arbitrary strings to permalinks, why not keep them as numbers, but change the end punctuation from / to # to create descriptive links like

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/35833561#more-url-niceness

Re: 10 Must-Have BlackBerry Apps for Small Business

John Lam — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:47:11 -0000

Try also the mobile client for http://SkyDeck.com. Beware it imposes inflexible address and telephone formatting, overriding number extensions and international formats, and mangles sync'ed address books.

Re: Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500

John Lam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:43:57 -0000

I can see a linear scale makes a more dramatic point, especially to those who don't understand logarithms, but i also echo the call for a log scale. It lets us see blips in trends, and it's simply more useful.

Maybe presenting a link or infographic on logarithms would help.

Re: Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500

John Lam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:15:54 -0000

Indeed, presenting the data in log scale helps identify a trend, for the past 20 years the US and Japan have slowed while China, India, and Indonesia have accelerated.

Wolfram Alpha present me the quick graphic below:

I can see a linear scale makes a more dramatic point, especially to those who don't understand logarithms, but a log scale lets us see blips in trends. That's simply more useful, and gives a reason for folks to learn logarithms.

Re: Income of United States, Japan, India, China, and Indonesia since 1500

John Lam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:18:58 -0000

Darn, your Wordpress settings culled my graphic. Readers can simply click http://dl.dropbox.com/u/101...

John

Re: How Clean Must Food Containers Be Before Recycling?

John Lam — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:37:43 -0000

“Burning off” organic residue still leaves impurities, and takes energy to heat and boil off the water. This latent heat of vaporization uses extra electricity in melting aluminum.

Re: Did Google Pre-Emptively Block a 4G iPhone on Verizon?

John Lam — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:28:49 -0000

Now would those who supported and even screamed for Net Neutrality boycott the iPhone and buy Android? I don't see Apple changing its app model. For precedents' sake, what punishment it must be to give in and finally do the right thing!

Re: CITY2.0 || Ideas

John Lam — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:32:22 -0000

Better integrated planning would have avoided narrowing University Ave so much in 2004/5 and left enough space for bicycle lanes along the entirety of the avenue in the city, for example.

I didn't post this idea, but i suspect many talented outsiders feel they have no say, despite charrettes and public input meetings. I've made suggestions and given feedback, and years pass before professionals incorporate them—the exact same ideas, unchanged through the years—into planning documents. More examples, the now disbanded Bike & Pedestrian Advisory Committee had suggested bike lanes and shared-use marking in 1999, and the City started implementing them two years ago. Eight years passed before my suggestion to accommodate carsharing made the Long-Range Transportation Plan.

Meanwhile, folks resort to imaginary planning: Crowdsourced Moscow 2012: A Public Space Game, http://fb.com/crowdsourcedm...

Re: Out Now: Podio Notifications for Google Chrome

John Lam — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:29:46 -0000

Feedback in the Chrome Store says the browser extension no longer works. In any case as you note, Podio could notify users via many methods. Chrome Notifications seems most simple, but i also like http://mzl.la/12jOQdA in Firefox or a chrome://apps for something lightweight too. This old favorite http://Delicious.com/tools demonstrates the ease of installation for users.

Re: How Sprawl Got Detroit Into This Mess

John Lam — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:38:32 -0000

Might i attribute this insight to you and call this the Mad Hatter theory of land use!

Re: “value”

PaulSolt — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:13:41 -0000

I agree with you. You can't sell a product back to someone once they've made a conscious decision that your piece of software is lacking or pointless to use.

Vista is a mess and I have no intentions of using it in place of XP.

Re: C/C++ and sizes of types

PaulSolt — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:44:57 -0000

There are two big problems. People don't appreciate your time and they don't know how to help themselves.

People really need to understand and learn how to find information to help themselves before jumping to conclusions. However it never hurts to be helpful in the situation where they don't know how to help themselves. Don't let it eat your soul.

Re: Firefox’s SSL policy is not bad, you idiot

PaulSolt — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:23:55 -0000

Good read. I think it's a good system to get in your face; especially for my relatives who are computer illiterate. This step is completely necessary to protect any user from doing harm to themself.

Re: Go Vote

PaulSolt — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:24:37 -0000

I voted! Hope Ines is happy.

Re: Server Issues (Round 2)

PaulSolt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:57:39 -0000

Keep up the good work! Digsby is still the best client that I've used. I will continue to use it into the future. Go RIT!

Re: Easy, Modular Code Sharing Across iPhone Apps: Static Libraries and Cross-Project References

PaulSolt — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:17:11 -0000

Thank you, I've mostly worked with Visual Studio and was looking to do something like this in Xcode for the iPhone. Your guide is a good reference.

I'm using the setup with multiple targets that use different versions of a library and it's nice to have everything build and link properly.

Re: get this shit:

PaulSolt — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:48:28 -0000

awesome stuff!

Re: Gmail bug? Conversation labels do not apply to new messages

PaulSolt — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:27:37 -0000

Wow. Thanks for the info, this is a bug I ran into and couldn't figure out a work around until reading your post.

I had an issue where I had labeled a message last year and the email thread had continued this year. I archived the message and then was unable to find it without searching a few pages of archived messages on the label. I reapplied the label to the message thread and now the most recent message is the first one for the label.

This bug probably also explains why I thought the Gmail search was broken. Messages are not appearing where I expect them to based on the latest message.

The label bug is completely unintuitive and should be addressed. They pushed labels so heavily by making them a permanent part of the UI, but they're completely broken for any archived thread.

Re: Gadgets for Good Health

PaulSolt — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:43:05 -0000

Do push-ups. No gadgets needed and you get better results than almost any other exercise.

I'd say 25-50 at least 3 times a week.

Re: Announcement: A Major Life Change

PaulSolt — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:03:15 -0000

Very cool!

Re: Popular iOS Apps And Games On Sale For A Limited Time - Over 100 To Choose From!

PaulSolt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:31:55 -0000

Photo Table is on sale ($4.99 -> $0.99)

Play with your photos using all ten fingers as a universal app for iPhone/iPad.
http://www.PhotoTableApp.com/

App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/...

Re: Test Driven Game Development Experiences « #AltDevBlogADay

PaulSolt — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:44:07 -0000

Great post! I love unit tests because they've changed my mindset when I code.

Unit testing makes you think more about the code as you write it. It changes your programming style so that you always thinking about the input, output, and failure points. i.e. "What happens when this happens?" etc.

Last year I wrote a first part of a series on unit testing for iPhone using C++ and Objective-C. My first App was a combination of C++ and ObjC … ObjC++. So I used two different frameworks to validate the code, Boost Unit Testing for C++ and GHUnit for ObjC.

Read my post: http://paulsolt.com/2010/11...

Granted I don't use it for everything. When I need to fast prototype a new UI or gesture input, I don't bother to write the tests because I find it confusing to test and when it changes, it becomes a hassle. However, unit testing works great to make sure your data structures update and that things really delete.

All of my apps on the App Store have some unit testing, not 100% more like 20-40% code coverage, but it's on the important parts. http://www.ArtworkEvolution...

-Paul Solt
PaulSolt@ArtworkEvolution.com